Reconciliation in a Michigan Watershed - Heffner, Gail Gunst; Warners, David P.
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"Like many American urban waterways, Ken-O-Sha has been in decline for nearly 200 years. Once life-supporting, the area now known as Plaster Creek is life-threatening. In this book scholars and environmentalists Gail Gunst Heffner and David P. Warners explore the area's ecological, social, spiritual, and economic history to determine what caused the damage, as well as more recent efforts to repair it. Heffner and Warners provide insight into the concept of reconciliation ecology, as enacted through their group, the Plaster Creek Stewards, and other community members who refused to accept a…mehr

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"Like many American urban waterways, Ken-O-Sha has been in decline for nearly 200 years. Once life-supporting, the area now known as Plaster Creek is life-threatening. In this book scholars and environmentalists Gail Gunst Heffner and David P. Warners explore the area's ecological, social, spiritual, and economic history to determine what caused the damage, as well as more recent efforts to repair it. Heffner and Warners provide insight into the concept of reconciliation ecology, as enacted through their group, the Plaster Creek Stewards, and other community members who refused to accept a status quo of a contaminated creek unfit for children's play, severely reduced biological diversity, and environmental injustice. Their work reveals reconciliation ecology needs to focus not only on repairing damaged human-nature relationships but also on the relationships between groups of people, including between Indigenous people and the descendants of European colonists"--
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Gail Gunst Heffner is an emerita faculty member at Calvin University. She served as the director of community engagement in the Office of the Provost where she cofounded and codirected Plaster Creek Stewards. Heffner received the Urban Waters Learning Network's Signature Award (2019). David P. Warners has been at Calvin University since 1997 and has earned multiple awards for teaching and community service. Warners has authored over fifty scientific publications in the areas of botany, restoration ecology, conservation, and plant evolution. He cofounded and currently directs Plaster Creek Stewards. Warners received the Urban Waters Learning Network's Signature Award (2019).